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DRAGON AGE III: The Apology - The Rageaholic
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- If Anita Sarkeesian's mouth has taught us anything, it's that 'open' doesn't always mean 'good'.
But what of the open world in Dragon Age: Inquisition?
![The Blandish Inquisition (Dragon Age Inquisition) [Critique]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/pKpP3pDNQHQ/mqdefault.jpg)
Anyone else remember when Bioware were good?
Baldurs gate.
that is all.
I remember the first Mass Effect.
.... I like dragon age 3...
But I can see why its soo...... not as good as the first.
*looks at his copies of the Baldur's Gate Trilogy and Planescape: Torment and weeps*
Sorry Sargon, but in what good? Their combat has been terrible throughout all their games, which have all been littered with bugs and horrible design decisions and there's always been issues with their stories.
DA:I is the best game they've done despite it's issues.
what's actually amazing is that what Razorfist envisioned SARCASTICALLY the dialogue wheel would be with a single word- ACTUALLY happened in Fallout 4.
Politically Correct Age : The Jimquisition
Yup.
Dragon Age: Cisquisition
This game was merely okay in my books, but the problem is that this is the type of game that just doesn't get made anymore. Basically, im hankering for pizza and Bioware is the only pizza shop in town, so I just have to accept average pizza.
My thoughts exactly.
CandyCosmic Put it better than I did!
If you don't mind a game more of the style of baldurs gate with no fancy cutscenes you should try Torment: Tides of Numenera
Brian Gariepy
New Torment is still in development. Maybe you had Pillars of Eternity in mind but that one maybe will be released next year.
Divinity: Original Sin beats this game like a red headed step child. If people can't look past whatever is being pushed in the AAA sphere, then they will continue having to settle for average pizza.
That was the most negatively positive review I've ever seen.
Watch GTA 5 Review
I'm surprised you didn't touch the monetized multiplayer or the overly SJW shilling.
"Yes, I am on a quest, no I don't need to know your sexuality, stop shoving it in my face"
I did touch on the SJW/stilted romances angle in a tertiary sense with the whole section on BioWare perpetually having sex partners on the mind.
***** : To which I have to use this line from an article I stumbled upon on Reaxxion: "...if you can team up with it, you can fuck it or be fucked by it..."
@@samuelwheeler9678 Need to stop defending unwanted sexual BS in a game about killing dragons with wizards and shit. If you want all that sexual shit go watch Game of Porn instead.
'The Greatest Trick Bioware Ever Pulled Was Convincing The World Dragon Age Inquisition Was A Better Game Than It Actually Is.'
That's my verdict.
Yep. You're absolutely right.
No kidding
It's lying ill in the same bed as Andromeda, too much fluff, filler and bland characters.
Merry Christmas, rageaholics!
Don't do anyone I wouldn't do!
(That rules out sea mammals and automobiles)
What did you play this on?
+devilsmessanger as he's said before, Yahtzee was inspired by someone who was inspired by the person Razor was inspired by.
devilsmessanger Wrong. Charlie Brooker was doing in PC Zone Magazine... what Yahtzee didn't start doing until 2007. I'm inspired by Dennis Miller, a guy who perfected the art of verbose ranting in the early '80s. Miller, presumably, inspired Brooker. (Brooker's TV shows in Britain have followed the format of Dennis Miller Live and even Dennis' run on SNL's Weekend Update fairly closely, so I tend to doubt Brooker is unaware of Miller)
+The Rageaholic That's interesting if true because Brooker is fucking hilarious and Dennis Miller is about as funny as a... (well, you're the simile man; whatever is emblematic of 'excruciatingly unfunny').
urbium - About as funny as a crushingly-oblivious youtube comment by someone who allows their political bias to color their taste in comedy?
This game sucks. It's an offline MMORPG with a main story as short as Skyrim, except it forces you to do stupid vanilla WoW quests for 6 hours in between the nine (yep, nine) main story quests.
There's zero tactics or strategy in the gameplay, and the more you try to control the characters, the more the terrible AI fucks up the most unbelievably simple tasks, and you can't customize the AI at all, so it makes all of the combat's "challenge" not about fighting the monsters, it's about overcoming the awful AI.
Also, hold R to do cool poses. What a joke. Worst game I've played in a year.
Wander von der Seele Agreed. Playing Wild Hunt has only highlighted how pseudo-Bioware are just total dog shite.
Wander von der Seele Offline MMORPG is a perfect way to describe the game. Bioware put all its attention on quantity, without regard to quality of characters, storytelling, etc.
+bennymountain1 Those aren't even quests though, they're just little miniature activities scattered throughout the map. A bigger problem with The Wild Hunt is all you do to be a monster detective is use your witcher sense, no actual investigation or intelligence involved.
+Hovis Steve Eh Witcher 3 besides the map markers has actual meaningful questlines
+NestorTheMolestor I partially agree with this, it would of been cool if you had to do a bit more for the monster hunts. Having said that, when compared to DA: I and even more recently FO: 4 the Witcher 3's quest design is like god damn Shakespeare.
What? Rescuing a goat didn't do it for you? How about talking to Iron Bull about whether Krem is a man or woman. Nothing says game of the year like being preached to about social justice nonsense..
That’s a good name
I approve
Is there any mod out there that makes Krem attractive? Would love to know just for the lulz such a thing would cause.
@@kayokango not sure how mod friendly Bioware games are. The only games I play modded on PC are from Bethesda, Skyrim and Fallout 4
wait wait ''tactical combat''
You fucking with us man?
pizzarelaguy Compared to Dragon Age 2, even Call of Duty is more tactical.
You know what, I don't think I actually have a single problem with any kind of race, gender, sexuality, etc. IN video games.
It's devs/journalists/pr/etc. acting like it's a big deal in video games are what I have a problem with. Gloating over having a gay couple in a game won't make social "justice" be served any sooner, it just makes the romance seem like it was shoved in the game unnecessarily, when maybe it WAS significant. It destroys any genuine value diversity has.
I'd love to see devs make a game diverse, but that means calling out journalists for how petty they are when complimented.
You hit the nail on the head. My problem with this emphasis on diversity is that it's used as a tool to look sensitive/progressive, rather than to make a story or characters more interesting for the sake of it. It's like people put a gay character (for example) in just to confirm to their audience that they're not homophobic, and that character won't serve any other purpose.
I've always thought the best way to show diversity in a story is to have that kind of stuff exist, but have the story as a whole not care about those traits. For example there's the (completely unneeded) push to get strong heroines in more stories. If I were writing a story with a heroine (which I am) I wouldn't make the gender a focal point at all. I would want the heroine to be known for, say, determination, courage, a fun sense of humour, WHAT SHE ACTUALLY DOES... there's no need to call so much attention to something as trivial as gender or sexual orientation in a good story. No need for a dragging sub-plot about a homosexual romance in a story about an intergalactic war, am I right?
In which case, we need to call out the press for propping up Dorian the way he was.
It's a big achievement for Gaider, we get it. So is being the Lead Writer of the series for three games and helping manage a writing staff that did that same kind of thing with more subtlety. I would think, anyway.
Then again, Obsidian usually swoops in after stuff like this and brings some down-to-earth writing to the table.
The romance options in the new game are pretty ass in my opinion. All of the characters that I wanted my avatars to fall in love with, I couldn't. Either because of some race or sexual orientation bullshit, or the character in question simply not being an option to the player. I hope Dragon Age 4 will have more variety in this area...or at least give more options to Dragon Age 3 through DLC.
modelmajorpita From a design standpoint, no. From a programming standpoint, yes.
GammaWALLE
So you're saying it's lazy to do extra coding? Or do you think it takes more time and work to have the exact same reactions and speech no matter who hits on a person?
+The Rageaholic Fuck, Razor, I think Bethesda took your 'advice' on dialogue...I don't think they got the memo that it was sarcastic. >.
"If you're that fucking determined to lobotomize your conversation system, don't stop half way, go for the brass ring. Just hand me a one-word description..."
Razorfist, why on earth did you give Bethesda this idea? Seriously, what the hell is wrong with you?
For my fellow EA boycotters out there, Divinity: Original Sin is a great alternative.
i've been holding off on the game because it's soo bright like world of warcraft and league of legends. i hate that much saturation in games but i need to stop being picky x] i'll give it a go
Nah, I disagree. Divinity II was better, dialogue system notwithstanding.
***** If the game doesn't have color/saturation settings, try looking for some SweetFX profiles.
***** i recommend staying away from Nintendo games.
GammaWALLE nono i love nintendo and don't mind their games xD i just don't like it when some rpg games are over-saturated like in dragonage inquisition. they look like a coloring book just cause i'm more used to darker toned rpg games, but, i'm gradually getting over this issue of mines ^^
Fuck's sake, Bioware. The dialogue wheel's bad enough already, but then they had to put those indicator diagrams on each choice in case some fuckwit doesn't understnad that "Fight me" is an aggressive reply. Deus Ex: Human Revolution got its conversation system perfect first time (general tone of reply + detailed response when you mouse over), so why are Bioware still stuck with this half-baked system? HR's dialogue, especially with the Social aug, made you really think and concentrate- which is probably why no-one else has the balls to copy it.
Not every choice, most of them have those silly arrow thingies.
Radosław Hołdys Fair enough. I haven't actually played this game yet, but I was basing it off the couple of hours of DAII I did play.
They are sticking with it because - and that's no joke - they have a patent on the system.
WiredDragoon Wait, what?!!
baxopoka98
The dialogue wheel is a patented system, as far as I know. As in, they filed a patent for that. Doing something like that isn't uncommon, as a lot of the programs and systems used in a game's production cycle are often middleware developed by outsiders and then used on a license.
I'm confused.
You say the story is morally interesting, the companions are good (with exceptions) and crafting is intricate. I concur.
But then you spend half the video listing fault after fault after fault, all points that I completely agree with and that bothered me as well.
And yet your end result is that this game kicks ass?
Personally I'd give it a meh/10. Regardless of interesting companions, I find the casualized combat and areas full of MMO tier grinding increasingly hard to swallow.
Well, the only _major_ faults I itemize are the dialogue wheel, which BioWare needs to ditch, like, _yesterday._ The technical issues. And, of course, the batshit fetch-quest requirements.
Dragon Age: Origins suffered from all but one of those faults. Yet it was still utterly superb because it managed to put the knotted twists and turns of the narrative at the forefront. Dragon Age: Inquisition, _somehow_ manages to spotlight its narrative - one of BioWare's better efforts in recent memory - while expanding the scope of the world in the process. So I say it is absolutely a worthy sequel. Not necessarily superior to the first... but worthy of being considered part of the same series. Which is more than you can say for Electric Boogaloo.
I was fairly careful to note that it isn't perfect. Far from it. But absolutely playable, and a hell of a lot of fun, when it's rolling on all cylinders.
*****
What about Alpha Protocol dialog system? Better? Worse?
EmperorOfLols A little of column A... a little of column B.
_Love_ the idea of the time limit. Makes the player much more authentic and reflexive. Don't care as much for how obviously 'sarcastic / aggressive / generic good guy' the responses are, however. The dialogue choices themselves are as bad, if not worse, than Mass Effect in that way.
*****
Not sure if i love the time limit. Oh sure, it works for the distilled dialog since there isn't much to read (and is good for the developers because you have to pay less words to the voice actor), but if this was an old school roleplaying game like Planescape Torment with a shitload of choices and text then the time limit is "shoot yourself in the foot" counter productive.
I dont know what exactly happened happened to Pacing in games where taking your time to think and roleplay properly is like poison for developers.
I do however find the idea of a Global/Omnipresent Time Limit better than just a TL for dialog exclusively, because at least the urgency is consistent.
I dunno, in my books sequel should be several steps ahead of its predecessor not back, and Inquisition isn't ahead, it may be when compared to idiocy that was Dragon Age 2 but a tap-dancing cockroach would be better than Dragon Age 2 , personally i hated majority of my companions in Inquisition, i really wished murder knife from Origins back, i usually try and be goody too shoes in games but some of these characters just made me want to rip their spines out vertebra at a time.
There are a lot more issues with this game when compared to Origins that go beyond their shared faults, things like : The drastic change of art direction and obvious graphical censorship, The continuation of dialog wheel (there is not even a single instance of anything bold it's all sterile and bland), The combat a hybrid between hack'n slash and tactics which makes no sense i'm not saying Origins had best combat mechanics but choice to make Origins more like RTS and less like action packed hack'n slash appealed to me more than what we got in Inquisition i guess this one can be boiled down to preference some change was required but some things like the ability to tweek party A.I. in order to make it suit you, the pause option to make your companions better use the environment to their advantage all had its place within Origins, whilst we don't have that option in Inquisition A.I. is retarded, pause function has no use in hack'n slash games, the main villain is laughable, main story is good only as a setup for the next game.
In summery there are a lot of changes made to Inquisition which may seem small but make this game feel as if it's not Dragon Age, it feels like wolf wearing sheep skin,
Origins was game more akin to Neverwinter Nights, and Baldurs Gate, dark interesting mature, whilst Inquisition is generously awarded (by me) of being more akin to Risen than Dragon Age Origins, colorful, almost cheerful, and above all PC and childish.
DAI doesn't really gave me hope in Bioware. Just the Dragon Age team. I have no doubt that Mass effect 4 will probably suck.
Casey Hudson was the lead writer for Knights of the Old Republic... Maybe he'll remember he once could do something worthwhile?
Radosław Hołdys He left the company few months ago.
Oh. Then we are screwes
Nah, it was probably the best for everyone. He lost his credibility when he said that ME3 will contain RPG elements, also saying that they haven't forgotten the success of the first game.
Maxiga Well aslong as they don't allow the braintrusts they have in there to "Make awesome happen" again we might still have a chance.
Anybody else pissed off with the lack of attribute distribution?
Maybe I'm being picky but I like fine-tuning my characters. What If I want my barbarian to have a couple of points in magic? Really curbs the practical side of customisation.
***** I sort of get the feeling that restrictive mechanics are Bioware's weakness-at least recently. Look at the original Mass Effect and Dragon Age- decent stat distribution and customisation. DA3 and ME3 nosedived in that respect.
*THIS* is why I don't do reviews.
It's because there are other out there that pretty much saying the same things as I would BUT are doing it *far better*.
This game won GOTY over Bayonetta 2, Mario kart 8, DK Topical Freeze and Smash Bros? I wonder how much they paid the Doritos Pope for this nice bit of promotion?
It is actually the best game. A game with a great story, good world design, crafting system, graphics and music
that doesn't make any sense what does the trademark brodude Doritos joke have on Dragon Age?
Nobody owns a WiiU
Radosław Hołdys
Even if that was true, how does that affect the quality of the games available for it?
Nobody plays the games nobody knows they're good :P
can only chose one specialization
only 8 abilities on your hotbar
head + torso are only armor slots (having legs and other crap as upgrades were a bad idea and just lazy)
no height/ weight/ musculature options
rogues can only use daggers and bow
can't change weapons in combat (ie rogues can't swap to bow)
walking into fire on the terrain does no damage to you NEXT GEN
no healers
you no longer move to the loot when you click on it. you have to stand right to it to get what you want. enjoy stopping every 10 second to pick something up
auto attack no longer exist. you either click or hold a button.
no attribute points distribution. It's done automatically based on your class.
worst tactical interface in the series
the AI is dumb as bricks and will refuse to fallow your orders (use skills you tell it not to use)
Stats are not numbers but maters (there are numbers but how they work and effect the game is almost irreverent
some quest givers are bug so you have to restart the game to finish them (enjoy the one minute load time)
can only carry 9 heath potions at the time
warriors can't dual wield
the open world are just zones full of corridors
50s loading screens between the zones
flora doesn't react when you walk through it
its trash. a single player MMO much like kingdoms of amalur but much worse. quited after 12 hours of the game and i have to say, i had more fun playing DA2 than this. 2 was so bad it could be enjoyable at times and was not a down right shore to play. unlike Inquisition
must.... not... grammar... nazi.....
***** You must not abuse elipses.
On a sidenote this is enough condensated stupid to kill a man.
Totally agree, this game feels like a shitty singleplayer MMO. The shitty tactical controls and lack of AI scripting in this game makes not feel like a Dragon Age game at all. The PC port is shit, they don't even have tooltips. It's been over a month and they had one patch that fixed very little and even broke more shit.
Tactical combat? .... whut?
Did you play using a controller or KB+M? I found the game difficult to play with either, and tactical combat... no way man.
Also you didn't talk about the godawful AI, the removal of the tactics system, etc. Kinda feels like you glossed over some issues in this review.
I found the AI to be competent enough to win most battles on Hard without much assistance from me.
Radosław Hołdys Yeah but if you left the AI alone... there's not much variety in what they do. Bit of a gloss over, I agree, and perhaps he was too confounded by the multiple glitches already in the game, but the level of complexity and spell variety just isn't there in this game.
That's too bad. Getting to know my allies as people around the camp was one of my favorite things. Much as I didn't want to, I could never make myself tell morrigan no, and run the risk of letting Alistair die because I came to love both of them as my best friend, and my fiancee.
As time has gone the more I detest Inquisition and even conclude it's a weaker game than II! The Witcher 3 just highlights the train wreck that is Inquisition. People can feel free to like it (or think that they like it), but anyone who proclaims they "prefer" Inquisition to Wild Hunt won't get any respect from I!
Hovis Steve Please. The Glitcher is plagiarized dogshit, and Wild Hunt is its rosetta stone.
And I just replayed Dragon Age II...
...can the hyperbole. Inquisition curb-checks it. Acquire some taste, Captain Contrarian.
***** Plagiarized how? The games are based on books published in the early 1990s, with first 'The Witcher' short story published in 1986. Inquisition is an improvement on DA2, but Witcher 3 even more highlights how much Bioware has fallen - the game as an RPG is miles ahead of DA:I. Bioware needs to stop designing their games using the same template since the Mass Effect 1 days. Every single game following ME1 has been designed in the same Paragon/Renegade way, with endless amount of pointless filler, and more and more game systems trying to compete with Assassins' Creed.
***** Firstly, massive fan of yours. You're easily one of my favourite - if not my absolute favourite - CZcams personalities and I hope you keep up the uncompromising work for years to come (even if you do have the tendency to adopt a one-size-fits-all approach towards your comments section in regards to dissenters even if they're amongst your fanbase and are simply disagreeing in an amicable way. Though having said that, I guess that's just part of your style and you wouldn't be the same otherwise). Yes, I am brown-nosing and you freakin' love it really!
I'm also aware of your reasons for boycotting of The Witcher and even though I don't follow this path myself your reasoning for aforementioned boycott is totally understandable and reasonable as far as I'm concerned. Regardless, from my own personal standpoint I still think Wild Hunt is a sad reminder of what Bioware once was, plagiarism or not.
You're right though. Dragon Age II is an absolute shocker. When it comes to the two Dragon Age sequels though I'd conclude that they're both very, very shitty games and Inquisition shouldn't be regarded with anymore respect than II and vice-a-versa. They're both crap games through-and-through and talking about which one is "superior" is like debating about which pile of shit smells the best. It's a dead franchise as far as I'm concerned.
But to reiterate, keep up the amazing work. Already looking forward to what future, constructive rants you have in store!
Hovis Steve I wouldn't say they are crap games, just not as good as the first.
+The Rageaholic How does the witcher books being plagiarized (if they even fucking are) has any impact on the quality of witcher games?
Other than that, yeah, inquisition is worse than DAII in every possible way, and thats a really low bar indeed.
Divinity: Original Sin was way better RPG in 2014. Bioware is going downhill since Dragon Age 2.
+Umair Khan Divinity: Original Sin and Pillars of Eternity are some of the best rpgs I've played in years.
Razvan Musat
Can't wait for DOS 2. One of my most anticipated games. Seems like it'll be up there among the best.
Umair Khan It looks amazing.
It's 2019 and we still don't have flying cars, and Bioware ate the bullet.
>"Dragon Age is back"
> 9 years later D.A; Veilguard trailer drops.
Yeah, uh... that may have been a little bit too optimistic to say.
Watching this in 2021... Must admit not having flying cars sucks alot
How the hell did you of all people make this outrageous claim that this game is a good game? Fetch quests, mmo lite bullshit. Shitty story shitty combat, no difficulty horrible ai, boring companions......war table...seriously did you miss all that or just play like the worst game of all time right before this?
_"Shitty story shitty combat, no difficulty horrible ai..."_
...but enough about Witcher 3.
***** Lol I haven't played Witcher 3 yet. But both got good reviews so it makes me nervous the audience that praised it is different. But I played Last of Us right before playing this game so maybe if that wasn't the case, I'd have viewed it differently. But still the game was mostly filler. And the combat was extremely easy
Now that's just plain not true.
Adam Frisk Quit trolling. I could list everything and it would match what i said. But I ain't going to take forever doing that. It's pretty obvious. Oh and did I mention how linear it is for a Bioware game?
RagingRejectTV I was addressing the Rage fellow, not you. I do, however, subscribe by every word you've said. Playing Inquisition felt like...... torture.
couldn't help myself :)
Demons & Wizards, very under appreciated band
It was definitely a much needed improvement over the slapped together abortion that was DA2, but I dunno, it felt gimped. Not to say it was a bad game, I quite enjoyed it, at least until I realized the advanced class I had taken for the mage (Knight Enchanter) was more boring than the combat in DA2, and actually was probably worse. Hit two buttons, win every fight. I ended up rerolling again and again, not finding any other class I enjoyed the look and play style of.
I blame Bioware for not letting me play a dual-wielding warrior like my Origins character, shit was awesome.
Dragon Age Origins = fucking amazing enough that you should sacrifice your first child in it's name
Dragon Age 2 = The Harvy Weinstein of Dragon Age
Dragon Age Inquisition = did not like it, can't hold a drop of water because of the massive plot holes.
A lot of time has passed and even tho I loved DA:O and DA:A and I even fucking played 2 till the end, I still haven't got out of the prologue of Inqusition. It just bores me and I don't really have the time to play a game I don't enjoy to the part were it actually starts. If the first 3 hours are boring, count me out. Sad, really.
I wasted 110 hours on this game. 100% completion.
You might say I got my money's worth but it felt more like spending a week in Vegas and losing everything. At the end I felt empty and remorseful.
Bring back the cinematic RPG.
Never trust a man who needs to spend an hour in makeup and wardrobe putting on leathers before posting a review.
Never trust a man who holds a Gallup poll to decide whether his wardrobe is socially acceptable for man-tittied irrelevancies in a CZcams comments section.
*****
Lol. Never trust a man who says never trust a man. I actually love your reviews dude :) keep up the good work. And you're correct, i am socially inept, mainly due to the fact that my ex girlfriend is stalking me via any and all social media sites, my online webtext account (which she changed the password for) and my email. She has since proceeded to slander my name to any one i know or who could have ever gotten to know. So i'm hiding under my bed scouring the internet for a new home. Help
i've been waiting a month to hear what razorfist thought about this game. i've been digging it, but i'm not in love with it. i still yearn for the player customization of the first game. i loved that i had to choose whether strength or intelligence was more important when leveling up. and then actually having it matter. there's a lot of stuff that still feels like "baby's first rpg" to me, but maybe that's just what mainstream rpgs are nowadays. it's an unquantifiable improvement on the second game, though.
To be fair it's not like distributing stats in DA:O was a free for all.
Warrior ? Well that's easy, enough cunning to max out Coercion and then it's Strenght and Constitution
Rogue - Cunning and Dex
Mage? Int and Willpower (+ 16 cunning to max out Coercion)
How do people not get overwhelmed with depression knowing that our once favourite game companies have become immensely greedy, and money obsessed milking all of us as much as they possibly can with these lazy cynical fucking cash grabs?
5:13 This entire segue was just too much🤣 I literally fell on the floor laughing! I am black and I cannot tell you how much I enjoy people taking the piss on social Justice and virtue-signaling by being crass and irreverent.
Hello from the future. If you're wondering, no we still don't have flying cars and DA:I has gotten even worst from what I can tell on the PC side of things. It does not even start and there a dozens of ea.answers posts with hundreds of comments and no solution in sight. Do not buy this piece of trash game.
Update: Well it seems I found a fix, one suggested by EA of all people. Id reccomend googling Dragon Age Inquisition and youll find "A collection of tweaks and fixes." That compiles all that stuff for you.
I'm so glad I read the video description after watching. Made my night.
i'm calling it right now.
Dragon Age 4 is going to suck harder than an asthmatic in a vacuum chamber.
You know what is the best game in 2014 RPG wise?
Divinity :Original sin
If you don't choose any of the dialogue options with the heart icon, you won't be involved in anynromances.
And sexuality, in my perspective, is treated in a fairly sellegant way. Dorian is one of the party members that I most used and one of my favorite characters. He is gay, but he rarely brings this topic up.
I really don't understand people's obsession with bashing Bioware's approach to this issue.
I think he only *explicitly* states that he is gay ("I enjoy the company of men" are his exact words) if you do his PERSONAL quest. Shocking, right? You learn something about a character during their quest!
dai is a good game but it was clear as fuck that bioware did not make the effort to play test the game before rolling it out on shelves due to their massive amounts of bugs in the game that either skip entire dialog mentions to out right freezing everything to then need to be restarted . it is a huge problem that was left considered ignored by ea and thought of " oh it will just get patched up on later dates " well im still waiting for it to get patched before i start calling this game " game of the year " for fuck sake bioware get on with it already !
Completely agree.
It smacks of EA showing up at BioWare's doorstep with flamethrowers and a scowl and just being like 'push this out there in time for the holidays or learn what roast human smells like'.
***** hey rage want to know the ultimate shit move? I bought d.a.I for my Xbox 360 slim.... Can't be played on an Xbox slim, can't save the games 8 GB install to a flash drive.
trahapace150 You have an XBOX, what did you expect?
Radosław Hołdys this is a fault of e.a not Microsoft take your fan boyism console debate somewhere else.
trahapace150 Chill out I'm just making fun =3
It's an atrocity that The Withcer plagiarises Moorcock, but Dragon Age is great despite doing the same to The Wheel of Time?
I've never read Wheel of Time. But the Song of Ice and Fire similarities are there are well.
Grey Wardens: Legion of the Dead
Darkspawn: White Walkers
Alistair: John Snow
Lelianna: Melisandre(sp?)
You can even get a sword in the game called Oathkeeper. The name of a Valyrian steel sword in ASoIaF.
I... I can't believe it.
My experience with the game's story came from simply reading the wiki after being thoroughly disillusioned with the series. I did find the story to be more interesting than the previous game's, but you're telling me that the actual GAME the story is based on is worthy of succeeding the first Dragon Age?! I suppose it's a Christmas miracle!
That's what I did with DA2, but considering they spent more than 8 months making his game, I can say DAI is definite worth playing, despite the bugs.
@@fatesrequiem DA2 was a rush job compared to DA:I in so many ways.
F'in awesome review as always. Really like the way you juxtapose the negative with the positive; leaving me hanging to well in to the video whether you liked it or not! I agree, it is a return to form for the series. I take note of your point about how the narrative unfolds in the main story. Maybe they play tested it with-out the need for those rep points and felt that the story would be over too quickly compared to the amount of time you can spend exploring; and there is a lot to explore. As for the mounts, a nice idea; but I found that I didn't use them in the end, as i kept having to get on and off them fro the resources. That last point links in to the inability to have flying mounts in WoW's Warlord of Draenor, as Blizzard felt that having flying mounts would mean that players went through the content way too quickly; which they saw happen in Mists of Panderia. Still, I really enjoyed DA:I. I really don't know if the Witcher 3 is going to offer more. I think that it might look prettier; but no character customization (that I know of) compared to the character creation of DA:I, which is exquisite; and.. the story, will it be good enough. Well, we'll see. For now, though, DA:I is definitely worth experiencing.
P.s Really hope you had a great Xmas and that the new year is really great for you.
You know what? I actually really liked this game, though the in-your-face social justice themes like Krem being a transgender was annoying.
Dat Jurassic Park SNES elevator music...so many memories...
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays Razorfist :)
So Lord Razorfist,
1) Elder Scrolls vs Dragon Age
2) On their best day, what does Bioware and Bethesda do better than each other and what can they learn from each other?
A shame you wont be doing a Witcher 3 video when it comes out. I respect your reasons, but it would be interesting to see a comparison between that and DAI, seeing as the fan boys are already drawing lines between the two to the detriment of everyone else.
I'm still skeptical of saying "Bioware's back" Yeah, they made 1 good game after the debacle that were DA2, ME3, and TOR, but it's still 1 good game. There's a good chance that they could fall back to their bad habits.
Meh. Rather save money for Witcher 3.
NamelessBadassMOFO [Rageaholic Intensifies]
Dragon Age was back. And the DLCs we're awesome. But... 7 years later no sequel seems like Dragon Age was resurrected only to die quickly. I blame Andromeda.
Dragon Age is not only back, it's better then it ever was in Origins and yes while there are PC control issues it's the best game Bioware has made in a fucking long time.
Are you planning on doing a Series Retrospective of MechWarrior/MechCommander? I remember you mentioning it as one of your favorites at one point in the past.
Video title would be more accurate if it was called "Dragon Age 3: I Have To Pretend It's Good Because I Won't Be Playing Witcher 3 - The Only Good RPG Coming Out Anytime Soon"
Wow. Penetrating insight, Rainman. What's the working title for your comment?
'How to Avoid Disproving Even a Single Point Made in the Video Like The Drooling, Helmet-Bedecked RPG Codexian Homunculus I Truly Am in Seven Easy Steps'?
RPGCodex? Even if I went there, I couldn't imagine it'd be worse than sucking the taint of a shitty company at the BioWare Social Network, which is known to ban dissenters of the company which I'd imagine you'd be a fan of doing, but nice try numbnuts. especially when I'm not the one defending the Diversity Quota Checked MMORPG Lite shitfest that has choices no deeper than the equivalent of "Would you like fries with that?"
OldGamerStuff As opposed to the deep, philosophical choices embodied by quandaries like 'Will I go to _this_ city... or to _that_ city'?
Truly, Witcher 2 was a socio-political treatise in the making.
Best Dragon game is Dragon's Dogma. Come on Rageaholic, don't you want the wind pushing you?
yes dragons dogma was awesome but kinda light on the story and no pc release
***** i agree the story it had was great and i still play through every now and again, i just want more i understand im being selfish since i got more than my moneys worth from this game
Anybody remember when BioWare was good? Me neither.....
Brace Land get a new insult. Then again I wouldn't expect much else from losers like you who play shitty BioWare games.
tastycookiechip yea sure whatever makes you sleep at night.
6:01 That Turtle sandbox just made my day.
I only notice it now but thanks Razor you aked for the dumbing down of the dialogue wheel and Bethesda must have heard it and said: Hold my Beer.
Having never played a previous DA game, I'm enjoying the hell out of DA:I. That being said, Razor's analysis here is (as usual) as fair and unbiased as they come. He doesn't rip it a new one, but he doesn't blow his wad over the game either. It's exactly as he's said it, a big step in the right direction for BioWare. Whether or not they keep going down that path remains to be seen.
7:32 to bad fallout 4 heard you
Demons and Wizards. Great choice for the credits!!! \m/
Merry Christmas Razorfist. I'm glad I found your channel this year. Great videos, great reviews. I'm going to check out Thief series now thanks to you. (No NOT TeefTanic). Hope you're around for years to come.
That had to have been the best "God fucking speed" outro you've done in awhile
DA Inquistion was not only a major shift for worse for BioWare, but games industry as a whole,
since a lot of the -progressive- regressive garbage we see wide spread across gaming today,
for the first time were clearly visible in Inquistion back in 2014.
Everything bad about Andromeda could be seen in Inquisition. Certainly an improvement on 2, but I saw the downfall of the studio when this released.
Dude you look fucking boss without the glasses. Great review. I don't mind the pace but that's just me. Glad to see Dragon Age back on track.
Ha! It's the SNES Jurassic Park elevator song! I enjoy your videos sir. Keep em coming.
These videos are why I subscribed. Trustworthy, honest reviews of games. Sure, it's fun to watch other reviewers nit-pick or over-praise a game, but I wouldn't trust those reviews if I were paid to. Which is not a far-fetched thought these days.
In the least "ass-kissing" way possible, thanks for being awesome.
7:36 he predicted Fallout 4, heh.
Inquisition is amazing, but it could have used another month or two in the oven. Bugs are everywhere. The tac cam is a wonderful return to formula. However, where the fuck is my full on top down view from Origins? Still not there. Mounts are a slap on addition that aren't useful for much because when exploring I like to scavenge for supplies to craft, and I'm not hopping off the horse every time I need to pick a flower, especially when I can just fast travel to already visited places.
The PC port is absolute shite, as well.
It reeks of EA pushing it out the door in time for the holiday season.
Inquisition: "B... but I'm not ready. I still need to get my makeup on and I think my dress is torn."
EA: "Get the fuck out on stage and strut your stuff whore."
Nice! This gives me a shred of hope for the next Mass Effect game. Wish they would quit fucking declaring Mass Effect announcements on Twitch streams and E3 conferences and then only showing up with 2 pieces of Concept art. I mean take your time sure, but shit or get off the pot. Don't hype your game when it isn't close to being shown in a gameplay capacity. You can show me all the art you want, if your game doesn't live up all i'm left with is a nice poster for my fucking living room.
That is why i hate people who keep bringing up elder scrolls has the best game series ever made because its open world 90% of people who say that have only played Skyrim. I don't care open world,sandbox or a straight line has long has it is good,works and makes sense with good characters and story.
I would have been ok if The Witcher 3 hadn´t come and completely knocked it of my shelf..
Can someone tell me why the fuck the party shares health potions? You give us a crafting system....let us use it!
the comments here are like a time capsule.
Oh lord...your joke about making the speech wheel one word...Bethesda heard it and was like, "Hold my beer." Oh Fallout 4.
4:14 Best part of the whole Dragon Age 2 game... Which is sad.
But Inquisition looks great, I can't wait to play it.
7:35 omg you predicted Fallout 4
I'm still not interested. My tastes in RPG's tend more toward the sci-fi/post-apocalyptic side, if at all. What tends to scare me off is that Bioware's writing has this intangible aura of smugness to it. That, and their character's are almost impossible to take seriously.
Hesus the insensitivity bit had me dying
Thanks for the review, man.
I'm still cautious about spending time and money on this game, though. Most of the videos I've seen on the 'Tube make the game look like and Oberlin course in gender studies and diversity. Not sure I want to reward that. But I appreciate the input.
I love how I care more about the music in the outro than I do about the video itself. xD At least I know where my priorities are. I thought it was an Iced Earth song until Demons and Wizards popped up. Then I also realized it sounded like Iced Earth meets Blind Guardian... Then after googling the band, I realized that I was actually right in a way. Oh Jon, you sir are the king of gallops.
Oh, and about the video. Dragon Age Inquisition: I thought it was pretty good. Yeah, glitchy as hell and the story itself isn't impressive in anyway, but I still love all of the characters and it's crafting system. Still going to go with Dragon's Dogma as the best dragon/monster slaying game while Dark Souls still has the best combat system I've seen in a game.
I'm just not feeling DA:I. Maybe because when I played the first one it was a type of game I never played before. I loved the first game and always will, it is one of my favorite RPGs ever. I liked the second one but I just couldn't bring myself to do another playthrough of it and I understood peoples complaints after the fact. For me the third one just gives me that whole "been there, done that" feeling that I just can't seem to get past. It also doesn't help the dick move EA pulled with their Dragon Age Keep bullshit where if you wanted to have your story choices matter you had to make an account on that website because whatever you did in the first two games meant absolutely dick and if you wanted to use the keep you were forced to making an Origin account. I wouldn't have had a problem with this if I was going from my PS3 to a PS4, but seeing as how I played the series thus far on my PS3 my progress should have carried over. But nope, EA wants you to ave that Origin account. I just said "fuck it" and played on with its default story setting, but that still left a bad taste in my mouth.
I was wondering just after you said "beat by beat". What do you think of KMFDM? They were my favorite band for years until Raymond Watts left.
Well I was contemplating getting this thing for a while. Now I guess this is the last nail in the coffin of my hypothetical money, now on to praying this thing'll actually run on my computer...
*****
Dragon Age 3 (or any modern Bioware/Bethesda/Obsidian game)
Tactical, isometric combat
Choose one
There is no tactics involved in Inquisition, it simply wasn't made for it, it's hack'n slash action-adventure game, the "tactical screen" they borrowed from Origins was so they can say : " hey we brought back a thing you liked", and it's true they did, but they forgot the ability to tweak party A.I. without it "tactical screen" has no use because companion A.I. is retarded, and rushing in guns blazing is usually more effective choice of the two, Origins combat was slow and felt sluggish in comparison but made sense, it was also as such in large part due because of animation a problem that could have been easily rectified since then.
Skyrim in 2011 on Christmas and this in 2014 on the same day.
Wonder what 2015's Christmas review will be. Should be a hoot.
On the one hand its nice to be able to jump in Inquisition but on the other, where is the option to equip a secondary weapon? Very fine review Razorfist and I agree for the most point but one bug bear that this game has alongside both its predecessors is that the main enemies seem to level up with you so you'll be fighting the same darkspawn/bandits/demons from level 1 to 20. Thanks for posting on Christmas by the way :)
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>What would Razorfist say...
Win
I got the game three days after release and had no game breaking bugs or glitches. Only bug I had was Iron Bull randomly disappearing at the castle, but after fast traveling somewhere in the castle he always returned. So 8/10
It's kinda awkward to look back on these older videos with jokes jumping on the "Michael Jackson raped kids" bandwagon after seeing Razorfist's lengthy rebuttal. I have to wonder what caused him to turn around on the subject so quickly?
I didn't. I still believed him innocent, even then. A joke is a joke.
***** Apologies, Mr. Fist. Just seemed kind of odd to me is all.
Vaibhav Shah You're late to the party. Razor already replied to me and cleared things up.
Having finally finished inquisition I don't know why people bitch so much about dialogue wheels. Like do these people have such a limited understanding of a summary that they can't see how what the character says and the small snips from the wheel say still mean the same thing -.- Like really it's not that hard nor as drastic of a 'difference' between what you say and the wheel as people make it out to be. Which hearing bitching about a feature that pretty much does nothing but save you from navigating the same 5 dialogue options 10 times in a single conversation so you can ask all your questions and then pick from 3 maybe 4 final options of text most of which are just a single sentence which doesn't exactly create realistic dialogue when you have protag say a line and then every else say ten in response. The wheel works fine and it's descriptions of what you actually say are rarely inaccurate if you have even a decent understanding of the English language. Besides dragon age inquisiton has far greater flaws than a non-issue such as the wheel. Side quests which razerfist really should have talked about more but given how lackluster and boring they are I can see why he had a hard time doing so. Other than that good review.
My annoyance is that occasionally you want to say something, but what is said is the exact opposite or isn't in the ballpark of anything in any small resemblance to the 'snip' that you were given.
I play with almost to all trials on, so my choices on that wheel matter to me when I'm trying to portray a certain character and their relationships with other characters.. Someone getting a response by accident that makes them disapprove is like kicking me in the junk six-hundred times. You see a greatly disapproves..and you know that they will hate you until the devil saves the universe from the heat death
I'm amazed it kept me engaged for 90 hours(not close to being done), let alone a single hour.. Most games bore me before I have half an hour with them.
I enjoy..playing the side quests; however, I do play on hard and nightmare with the trials active.. so I also enjoy the difficulty of it, the side quests don't seem so lackluster when you're clawing at the very essence of survival for merely hiking into the hinterlands, and god forbid you see a bear before level 8(60 hours)!
That quest for collecting the bear claws.. I was level four and three of them kept popping out of nowhere! lol
As a horse back rider of almost 20 years I gotta say the horses in DAI are some of the best when it comes to honest control. Sure the animations are a bit stilted and the detail movements at least left me feeling like I was riding a large animal with some weight and pull to it and not an fuzzy stick with some legs. Seeing as how they used the same base frame and animations for all the different breeds and sizes it's pretty much the general middle ground of 'yea I get it'. Nothing like the god awful non-attempt skyrim did and in all my years of playing WoW I still get motion sick for my toon when ever we need to mount up. It will be a nippy day in hell when game animators take the time out to look at animals when attempting to animate them in games. I mean did you see the wolves? That alone made me cringe and go 'have they ever seen a dog? Do they know how to walk themselves?'. While some of the animation left me jumping for joy (ei the not fully static magic animations and fancy staff spins) 99% of your characters movements make it look like the poor bugger dropped a load in his pants. Always hunched over and never moving their arms past elbow height like the animators couldn't be assed to remember how a person stands. Women are the worst since they didn't bother to give them their own animations let alone base frames to make it look generally acceptable. My inquisitor always looks like she's airing out her pits and is afraid to let her shoulders drop from ear height. And that's just elves poor dwarves go through high chances like the plague and are copped up and down for size correction for ever cut scene.
So yea, horses were pretty nifty.
I wish sidequests were uncompletable in my game - instead, I get notifications that I've completed the "blood and root" quest every time I pick a blood lotus. Every. Fucking. Time.
Bayonetta 2 , Super Smash Bros. For Wii U and Shadow of Mordor should had won GOTY 2014 at The Game Awards instead of Dragon Age 3!!!
EA Pay off the voters to rigged the award show!!!!!!!!!
Of course more popular game on five platforms would win in such contest. Its more popularity than quality contest.
What, no mention of Alien Isolation?
Shadow of mirror did win goty
I would like to ad that the world was empty as fuck it was getting close to AC lvs and the whole how you got the mark story was written and presented so poorly that my reaction was something like this i.makeagif.com/media/11-29-2015/RuCh3i.gif
Edit: side quests are horrible for the most part, some characters are plain ass boring, assassins class is broken, playing as mage/warrior can get boring/annoying at times and haveing only healpots is stupid and will make you backtrack from time to time (at least if you are as paranoid as I am)
(there are more flaws but I cant remember atm)